At 20:53 in the evening, GMP requested the team’s immediate assistance for a search of the Pennington Flash county park area in Leigh, Greater Manchester. A 47 year old Manchester man was reported missing, giving Police cause for concern for this general welfare.

Team members at the Search control point in Pennington Flash country park

35 team members responded and in the extremely hot conditions of the late evening, conducted a thorough search of all the path network, bird hides and water margins of the country park, along with a two man Canadian canoe team from the team’s canoe & kayak unit, which conducted a surface water search. Just after midnight, with new Police intelligence, the search was suspended in this particular area. By 01:30 in the early morning of Friday 5th May, all team members had returned to their home locations for some well earned sleep (Our 3rd callout in only 4 days).

Final numbers 103 members of the public, at least 5 dogs, team members and approximately 40 people on horseback climbed Rivington Pike. We needed 50 people to walk from bottom barn to the Pike to climb the same height as Everest. So we managed to climb Everest twice. pic.twitter.com/vx13wRpn8E

We smashed 64 members of the public and 4 dogs have so far climbed the Rivington Pike. We needed 50 people to walk from bottom barn to climb the same height as Everest. Let’s see if we can get 100 people and climb it twice. pic.twitter.com/1FzzCRVet5

Runners and walkers are the group at most risk of accidental drowning in the UK - 77 people died in 2016 because they fell in the water whilst out for a run or a walk #BeWaterAwarepic.twitter.com/AfUVuX1WGz